Visual Basic .Net Primer Plus.doc

Sams Publishing : Visual Basic .Net Primer Plus
Table Of Contents
1. Main Page 8
2. Table of content 8
3. Copyright 15
4. About The Author 18
5. Acknowledgments 18
6. We Want To Hear From You! 19
7. Introduction 20
Who Should Read This Book 20
Objectives of This Book 21
For Instructors 23
Conventions 23
Contacting the Author 24
8. Chapter 1. Getting Started With Visual Studio .Net 25
Installing Visual Studio .NET 26
Checking the Visual Basic .NET Installation 41
Running Your First Program 47
Ending a Programming Session with Visual Basic .NET 48
Summary 49
Review Questions 49
9. Chapter 2. The Basics of Object-Oriented Programming 50
A Brief History puter Programming 51
A Program Example Using OOP 67
Your First Program 75
Running a Visual Basic .NET Program 78
Adding Code to Your Program 79
Summary 88
Review Questions 89
10. Chapter 3. Thinking About Programs 90
Why Bother? 91
Algorithms 92
Five Programming Steps 93
Sideways Refinement 97
What Is UML? 99
UML Class Diagrams 102
Summary 107
Review Questions 108
11. Chapter 4. Data Types and Numeric Variables 109
Visual Basic .NET Data Types 110
Details About the Visual Basic .NET Data Types 112
Variables 120
Behind the Scenes: The Visual Basic .NET Symbol Table 124
The Inspector Program 129
Visual Basic .NET Program Errors 133
A Simple Math Program 135
Binary Numbers 140
Summary 142
Review Questions 143
12. Chapter 5. Subroutines and Functions 144
Subroutines 145
Functions 166
Summary 169
Review Questions 169
13. Chapter 6. String Variables 172
Strings 172
Working with the 'String' Class in Visual Basic .NET 186
Other 'String' Methods 201
Summary 202
Review Questions 203
14. Chapter 7. Arrays 206
Data with Arrays 206
Changing the Ba